The Tower of Babel in Contemporary Child Analysis: Working to Translate Languages and Meanings

The Tower of Babel in Contemporary Child Analysis: Working to Translate Languages and Meanings

When: Sunday, September 14, 2025

Where: Online via Zoom

Time: 9 am - 12 pm Eastern US

Attendance: Open to all

Cost: Early bird pricing through September 1st - $100/person
          After September 1st - $150/person
          Candidate/Student - $70/person

3 CE/CMEs available

Presenters: Dr. Timothy Rice, Dr. Sunghee Han, Jennifer Davids, Dr. Susan Donner, Dr. Susan Sherkow, Dr. Konstantinos Taliouridis, & Micky Bhatia

The ACP International and Inter-Organizational Committee will host a virtual conference highlighting our growth in a worldwide presence through a case presentation of child analytic work with a preschool-aged girl from South Korea. Dr. Sunghee Han (South Korea) will present the case of Yuna, aged three years and eleven months at the start of her treatment, and follow the impact on her developmental course of Yuna's transition from the English to the Korean language through the course of the treatment and her mother's postpartum and persisting depression, highlighting elements of infantile sexuality, evolving gender identifications, and aggressive play. Following audience Q&A and a break, Dr. Jennifer Davids (UK) focuses on matters of language and its forms and describes translation from the internal world through play and symbolic function, as well as on the socio-cultural context in which this treatment unfolded. Dr. Susan Donner (USA) will highlight the role of work with the parents of the analysand to promote more complex and flexible views of the child and a greater investment in her developing mind. After a second audience Q&A, the panel concludes with an address on sociocultural and diversity and training issues.  Dr. Susan Sherkow (USA) provides comments on supervision and context, IPSO Candidate Representative Konstantinos Taliouridis (IPSO Vice President North American Region) on training perspectives, and child and adolescent training and supervising analyst Micky Bhatia (India) on community outreach and supervising from an international perspective.